Projects and Initiatives

The electric system improvements to Ann Arbor region will enhance the reliability of electric service to the area and create additional capacity to support growth throughout the region. Construction continues on schedule and is anticipated to be completed by early 2019.

Projects and Initiatives

Our Customers

ITC Holdings Inc. and CIPCO share an integrated system area in Iowa to transmit electricity to residents in both rural and urban areas. Gary Slaby, vice president utility operations for CIPCO, details the partnership and its benefits.

Our Customers

A Modern Power Grid

WIRES recently applauded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to proceed on Grid Resiliency, asserting that a robust transmission grid offers resource diversity and operational flexibility that is critically important to prevent, mitigate and recover from service disruptions.

A Modern Power Grid

Operational Excellence

ITC’s operational excellence continues as it recorded a .5 incident rate in 2017 compared to the EEI average of 1.5. The lost work day rate at .15 was also considerably lower than the EEI average of .45.

Operational Excellence

Community Approach

ITC partnered with the Michigan Science Center to host a special Arbor Day program for students throughout Michigan. The program will highlight the museum’s new ECHO Distance Learning Program that uses video conferencing to connect classrooms to a museum educator in real time.

The Amber –Donaldson Creek line spans Mason and Oceana Counties. ITC will rebuild approximately 20 miles of this line with new double-circuit structures and conductor (wires), providing greater reliability in this area of the state.

As part of ITC Michigan’s efforts to modernize aging electric transmission infrastructure and improve service reliability, we replaced 76 wood transmission poles with modern steel monopoles along the Apache – Seneca 120,000 volt (120 kV) transmission line. The 4.5-mile project began in September 2016 and was completed in 2018.

To support electric reliability and increase capacity in the Ann Arbor area, ITC is constructing approximately three miles of underground transmission line to connect a new DTE Energy substation named Apex, located near the intersection of Huron Parkway and Hubbard Road, to an existing substation named Phoenix, located just north of Dhu Varren Road.

The Battle Creek-Island Road line spans Calhoun and Eaton Counties. ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, will rebuild 23 miles of this line with new single-circuit structures and conductor (wires), providing greater reliability in this area of the state.

ITC Michigan will rebuild approximately 22 miles of its Beecher - Samaria 138,000 volt (138kV) transmission line. This project will improve the reliability of high-voltage electrical service in the area by replacing the current wood H-frame and steel lattice structures with double-circuit steel monopoles.

ITC is partnering with American Transmission Co. (ATC) and Dairyland Power Cooperative to propose a high-voltage electric transmission line connecting northeast Iowa and western Wisconsin that would provide economic savings, support renewable energy, and improve electric system reliability.

Known as the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line, the proposed project connects ITC Midwest’s Hickory Creek Substation just east of New Vienna in Dubuque County, Iowa, extending northward into Clayton County and crossing the Mississippi River east of Millville. The proposed line would then be routed through Wisconsin and connect to the Cardinal Substation in Dane County.

Reliable, sustainable, efficient energy is critical to the quality of life we enjoy. To improve electric reliability, enable more electric generating sources to connect to customers, and meet the region’s growing energy needs, ITC Midwest (ITC) built a new high-voltage electric transmission line in north central Iowa.

To support economic growth in southern Michigan, ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, is constructing new substations and transmission lines in the City of Coldwater, and in Coldwater, Girard and Union Townships. The project is being constructed in two phases:

ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, has upgraded the southern segment of the Croton-Mecosta 138,000 volt (138 kV) line with new steel monopole structures and aluminum conductors to increase its capacity and reliability and also allow for future expansion.

Portions of the electric transmission grid in Michigan, including many structures along the Delhi – Canal Jct.138,000 volt (138kV) transmission line, were built more than 50 years ago and have experienced minimal investment since that time. As a result, this line has become increasingly unreliable and costly to maintain as growing demand for electricity and outdated infrastructure technology have taxed its service capabilities, creating the potential for it to become overloaded.

ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, is improving the reliability of high-voltage electrical service in the area south of Lansing by replacing wood poles with more durable steel monopole structures. This project was completed in 2015.

To improve reliability and meet the region’s growing energy demands, ITC Midwest built a new electric transmission line and substation in northern Linn County, Iowa. The Hiawatha-Coffey line connects ITC Midwest’s existing Hiawatha electric substation (located in the south part of Robins) to a new substation, called Coffey substation, located one-half mile west of Highway 13. The new line connects the two substations, which are approximately 10 miles apart, and carry electricity at 161 kV. Construction was completed in December 2016.

ITC Midwest and Xcel Energy are proposing to build a 40-50 mile 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line that would connect ITC Midwest's Huntley Substation, south of Winnebago, and Xcel Energy's Wilmarth Substation, north of Mankato.

As Michigan continues to transition to a cleaner portfolio of power generation resources, additional transmission capacity will be needed to promote the continued reliability of the bulk power system and support the interconnection of new generation resources.

The V-Plan is a high-voltage transmission line connect eastern and western Kansas to improve electric reliability and enable energy developers to tap into the transmission grid, further establishing a competitive energy market in the state and region. This project also contributes to a stronger transmission grid, ultimately benefitting the entire region.

The lines and structures on the Keystone-Hodenpyl 138,000 volt (138 kV) line reached their design capacity limits and became difficult to maintain. METC upgraded this 26-mile line in order to improve reliability and to meet current safety, design and construction standards.

To meet the demand for improved reliability and to permit greater access to generating sources, ITC Midwest is building the Ledyard-Colby 345 kV electric transmission line. Construction on this 55-mile segment between ITC Midwest’s Ledyard and Colby Substations in northern Iowa began in late 2017, with competition slated for 2019

ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, will rebuild the line with new steel monopole structures and a higher capacity conductor (wires) to provide greater reliability in the southern region of the state.

To improve reliability and meet the region’s growing energy demands, ITC Michigan, through its ITC Transmission subsidiary, is constructing a new substation and transmission line in the City of Dearborn.

As Michigan continues to transition to a cleaner portfolio of power generation resources, additional transmission capacity will be needed to promote the continued reliability of the bulk power system and support the interconnection of new generation resources.

ITC invested $510 million to build the 345,000 volt (345 kV) line, which now serves as the backbone of a system designed to meet the identified maximum wind energy potential of Michigan’s Thumb region.

Following years of planning and construction, ITC Midwest completed and energized a major new, high voltage electric transmission line in 2018. As a 110-mile segment of Multi-Value Project (MVP) 3, the 345,000 volt (345 kV) transmission line connects ITC Midwest’s Lakefield Junction and Huntley substations in southern Minnesota, and the Ledyard switching substation and MidAmerican Energy’s Kossuth County substation, in northern Iowa.

ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, is constructing a new substation, named Morocco, in Lenawee County to alleviate stress on the transmission system and provide a more stable and reliable source of energy for the area.

The Hugo-to-Valliant Project is an approximately 18-mile, 345,000 volt (345kV) transmission line from a new substation located at the Hugo power plant west of Fort Towson, Oklahoma, to an existing substation southeast of Valliant.

ITC Midwest identified the Salem-Hazleton project as a priority after acquiring the region’s high-voltage electric transmission lines in December 2007. In April 2013, ITC Midwest energized the more than 80 miles of line, which extends from ITC Midwest’s Salem substation south of Dubuque, Iowa, to its Hazleton substation in Buchanan County.

The Spearville-Axtell line, also known as the KETA Project, is a 345,000 volt (345kV) transmission line designed to improve the reliability and efficiency of the regional grid, and make more affordable energy available.

ITC Michigan, through its ITCTransmission subsidiary, will construct approximately three miles of 120,000 volt (120kV) double-circuit transmission line to connect the State and Pioneer substations. This project will support electric reliability and increase capacity in the Ann Arbor area. Construction began in late 2018 and will take approximately eight months.

ITC advanced a grid development vision in 2009 called the Green Power Express™ (GPX™) to move growing power generation development that exceeded local needs in the Upper Midwest to load centers and markets where more power is used.

ITC Holdings Corp., through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC (METC) subsidiary, will rebuild approximately six miles of its Verona – Barnum Creek Jct. 138,000 volt (138 kV) transmission line in Calhoun County. The existing structures will be replaced with new 230 kV double-circuit structures and conductor (wires), providing greater reliability in southwest Michigan. Site preparation work began in Q1 2018. The project is expected to be complete in Q2 2019.

In order to improve the reliability of high-voltage electrical service in the Kalamazoo area, ITC Michigan, through its Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC) subsidiary, is constructing a new substation and two new transmission lines in Almena and Oshtemo townships.